B4025 crash in Solihull on 7 October 2002 at 20:05 involving a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle
A Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle and a BMW 5 Series were involved in a crash on the B4025 in Solihull at 20:05 on Monday 7 October 2002. The 34-year-old male rider of the Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2002
- Monday, 20:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki SV 650 and BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42061, longitude -1.81513, in the B90 postcode district and within the built-up area of Solihull. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shirley East & Sharmans Cross, Solihull, B90 3NW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220L184301
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4025
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 2009.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 5 June 2009
14 m awayRef 200920L082501
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 17 July 2013
14 m awayRef 201320L005163
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 25 June 2014
20 m awayRef 201420L004564
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 27 June 2002
22 m awayRef 200220L114401
Slight
Volkswagen Crafter crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 11 May 2025
29 m awayRef 2025201588418
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B4025 in Solihull, 23 May 2014
30 m awayRef 201420L003314
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 34, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki SV 650)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200220L184301 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 2002.